This is a guest Post by Stephen Sweet at Ithaca College on his Teaching Sociology article, “How Departments Can Respond to the Changing Popularity of the Sociology Major,” which is  based on his 2015 Hans O. Mauksch Address. Sociology is losing a popularity contest. True, there are now more sociology majors but there are also…

The Consortium of Social Science Associations (COSSA) (of which ASA is a governing member), in conjunction with the American Educational Research Association (AERA) and the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research, submitted comments on the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) for the Federal Policy for the Protection of Human Subjects or the “Common Rule.” Overall, the comments…

Of interest to authors, editors, and publishers alike . . . A new post from the Society for Scholarly Publishing’s Scholarly Kitchen blog discusses a new JAMA article on the Impact Factor denominator and its effect on journal rankings.

Have you ever wondered where your member dues go? And, what is the Association’s financial status? ASA Secretary Mary Romero has taken on the challenge of reporting on ASA’s revenue and expenditures in a January Footnotes article. Revenue is primarily from membership dues and journals followed not far behind by the Annual Meeting. On the…